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I have a Sony Vaio laptop running WinXP with a 14 gig hard drive. It was
configured with a partition that set approx 5 gig to the primary and 9 to
the extended. It no longer boots correctly and I was not given Windows XP
software to allow me access to the utilities that probably could fix the
booting problem, so I am going to do a reformat according to the Sony
Recovery software and just start over.
I do not want it partitioned, so any ideas if the reformat will start this
machine from scratch and allow me to use the hard drive as a single 14 gig
drive or is the hard drive once partitioned always partitioned? The SOny
software gives me two options- 1. Reformat drive C and install or 2.
Reformat drive C & D and install. I assume that I need to do option 2
because there is a C and D due to the partition. I can probably fumble my
way through the process and since I am starting from scratch if I screw up,
it can always be reformatted again. But any suggestons or advice ahead of
time would be helpful. Thanks,
Z
I have a Sony Vaio laptop running WinXP with a 14 gig hard drive. It was
configured with a partition that set approx 5 gig to the primary and 9 to
the extended. It no longer boots correctly and I was not given Windows XP
software to allow me access to the utilities that probably could fix the
booting problem, so I am going to do a reformat according to the Sony
Recovery software and just start over.
I do not want it partitioned, so any ideas if the reformat will start this
machine from scratch and allow me to use the hard drive as a single 14 gig
drive or is the hard drive once partitioned always partitioned? The SOny
software gives me two options- 1. Reformat drive C and install or 2.
Reformat drive C & D and install. I assume that I need to do option 2
because there is a C and D due to the partition. I can probably fumble my
way through the process and since I am starting from scratch if I screw up,
it can always be reformatted again. But any suggestons or advice ahead of
time would be helpful. Thanks,
Z